Ant attack! Newly discovered spider uses ingenious 'catapult' to catch prey. A newly discovered spider species in the ...

Tangle-web spiders can catch prey up to 50 times their size thanks to their pulley system-like hunting strategy. Photo by Emanuele Olivetti It sounds like a scene out of a horror movie. A hapless ...

The dexterity of this black wood spider is remarkable. A large dragonfly had already gotten caught in her web, and she had killed it. Now, she is using silk to wrap it up, a behavior spiders use to ...

There’s more than one way a spider can spin its web. Some construct large vertical orb webs, while others build horizontal ...

Large, palm-sized spiders are spinning massive golden webs across porches and power lines, and, according to experts, they’re here to stay. The Joro spider, which has a leg span up to 4 inches and ...

An international team of researchers has discovered a remarkable new spider species in the rainforest of North Queensland that spins an ingenious and powerful spring-actuated snare to catch a single ...